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Research and CommentaryBatten Professor and Students are Helping Communities Rethink the Way They Respond to Mental Health CrisesBatten Professor Brian N. Williams and students from his PEGLLLLab are working with an award-winning documentary team to launch pilot programs in three different cities to address the growing mental health crisis.
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Research and CommentaryHealth insurance coverage for kids through Medicaid and CHIP helps their moms tooBatten professor Sebastian Tello-Trillo shares new research suggesting that health insurance coverage for kids through Medicaid and CHIP helps their moms.
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AccoladesFounder’s Day Fete Celebrates This Year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation MedalistsOn Wednesday, the Batten School honored Sesame Workshop President Sherrie Rollins Westin with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership. Each year on Jefferson’s birthday, UVA and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello award the medals for exemplary achievement in fields the former president admired.
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Research and CommentaryBatten Professor Helps Soon-to-be Grads Get Their Finances in OrderBatten Professor Andrew Pennock believes personal finance is a life skill, using intentional choices to reflect a person’s values.
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Research and CommentaryRay Scheppach on Virginia’s State Budget ProcessBatten professor Ray Scheppach shares his knowledge on the Virginia state budgeting process as a guest on the WTJU podcast Bold Dominion.
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Research and CommentaryRural poverty, climate change, and family migration from GuatemalaDavid Leblang, Director of the Batten School’s Global Policy Center, along with co-authors, assesses the root causes of migration from Guatemala.
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Research and CommentaryWhy Professors Should Call on Law Students — With a PlanA new paper by Batten School professor Sophie Trawalter finds gender dynamics in classes are not fixed.
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Alum in Action: Curbing the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic Through DataAaron Chafetz (MPP ’13) is a senior economist in the Office of HIV/AIDS at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where he has risen in the ranks over the past decade.
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Sesame Workshop President is 2022 Jefferson Medalist in Citizen LeadershipSherrie Rollins Westin, president of Sesame Workshop and a 1980 graduate of UVA, has been named this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, an award selected by the Batten School.
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Research and CommentaryWhy democracies win more wars than autocraciesBatten School Professor Allan Stam writes in The Washington Post that dictators tend to start risky wars, but democracies win more wars than autocracies.
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Alum in ActionAlumna Outlines Child Care Policy in National PublicationBatten alum Maureen Coffey (MPP '21), a policy analyst on the early childhood policy team at Center for American Progress, says that lack of affordable child care costs families, employers and the entire economy. In an op-ed for MarketWatch, Coffey and co-author Hailey Gibbs outline how a comprehensive national approach could solve the problem.
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Alum in ActionHow Jasmine Burton Found Her Dream Job in a Time of StressThe Batten alum and former captain of the UVA women’s volleyball team is not afraid to discuss moments of deep uncertainty in her flourishing law career — and she encourages current students to go easy on themselves.